Public Cloud Contracts in the East Midlands

Public Cloud
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 57 72
Rank change year-on-year +7 +15 +13
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 5 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.89% 0.78% 1.08%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.98% 3.03% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile £357 - -
25th Percentile £358 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £445 £700
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -36.43% +14.29%
75th Percentile £537 £459 -
90th Percentile - £484 £708
England median daily rate £615 £610 £625
% change year-on-year +0.82% -2.40% +3.65%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

Public Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 168 198 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.00% 25.71% 28.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 137 210
10th Percentile £250 £167 £197
25th Percentile £356 £230 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £538 £560 £550
90th Percentile £598 £610 £685
England median daily rate £545 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 20
10th Percentile - £11.75 £16.60
25th Percentile - £12.28 £18.13
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.00 £21.19
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -33.92% +17.71%
75th Percentile £18.87 £18.32 £65.00
90th Percentile £22.43 £24.59 -
England median hourly rate £34.50 £32.31 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.79% +43.68% -16.72%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the East Midlands

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in the East Midlands

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in the East Midlands

Public Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Public Cloud within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire -4 4 £448 +0.56% 4
Leicestershire +6 1 £475 - 2
Public Cloud
England

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon Glacier
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Apigee
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (60.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Architect
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Solution Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Java Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Java Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
2 3 (60.00%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (60.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) OAuth
3 1 (20.00%) OpenID
3 1 (20.00%) RAML
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (20.00%) Swagger
3 1 (20.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Budget Control
2 3 (60.00%) Contingency Planning
2 3 (60.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Project Planning
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
2 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) API Design
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (20.00%) FinOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk